Leadership can be a very abstract concept. What even constitutes a leader?

This is what the mini seminar attempted to define for us. However, we learned to define leadership in a variety of ways. Each of us had different ideas of what qualities a leader should have, showing that every person perceives effective leadership differently. What was even more interesting is that depending on the setting that the leader we came up with was in, the characteristics that were wanted or ideal varied. We had to come to a consensus about what characteristics would be embodied in our ideal leader, which further proved that everyone different thought on what characteristics were essential to a good leader.